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Crop Circles. Elongated Skulls. Starchild Skull. ‘Time Reborn,’ by Lee Smolin. Light at the Edge of the World: Reinventing the Poetry of Diversity | WADE DAVIS - Bioneers Media. “Anthropologists don't attempt to eliminate judgment, only to suspend it, and the anthropological lens is most useful when turned on to those situations in which a people, despite the richness of their traditions, have been unjustly pilloried for beliefs that the outsiders failed to understand.” About this talk In a spellbinding address, Wade Davis brings the audience along on a visual tour of a vivid sampling of our planet’s cultural diversity and the “ethnosphere,” the astonishing richness of the human imaginal experiment. He highlights the cultural meaning-making traditions from an annual spiritualized footrace high in the Andes, to the beliefs of the canoe people of the Amazon, a voodoo ceremony in Haiti, and the traumatic cultural loss from the displacement of the nomadic Penan tribe of Borneo.

The vision and languages encoded in the bio-cultural diversity of these remote peoples are just as vital to biodiversity, he argues, as are the fauna and flora that inhabit our ecosystems.

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Sara C Nelson. Ricky wood. Writer|editor|curator|producer. Water. Non-Muslim Japanese scientist discovers effect of Islamic words, pictures & Azan on water. Mind & Life Institute — Building a scientific understanding of the mind to reduce suffering and promote well-being. The Yoga of Time Travel and Dr. Quantum's World. Mind & Life Institute — Building a scientific understanding of the mind to reduce suffering and promote well-being. Speakers | The Chopra Foundation. Mind & Life Institute — Building a scientific understanding of the mind to reduce suffering and promote well-being. Speakers | The Chopra Foundation. LUCID DREAMING. ASMR – free, intensely pleasurable relaxation for a lucky few. So I've been working on some pretty weird stuff lately, yet this may be a more embarrassing topic to write about.

For some percentage of readers, this article could make a major positive impact on your life. For the rest, I'll come away looking like a total wacko. I'll take those odds. View all Despite the very official-sounding name ascribed to it, there is no science to prove the existence of the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, or ASMR. But if you're lucky enough to be able to feel it, there's a growing and thriving community out there producing thousands of free samples of canned pleasure and relaxation.

Let me start from my personal experience. I started to notice that certain voices and accents would give me these "braingasms" as I started to call them, and if I stumbled across the right voice I'd turn to jelly. Now, I need all the help I can get with fashion, but this video made my head buzz so hard I couldn't concentrate. Here's what we know about ASMR And there's others. About WhisperFinder | WhisperFinder | Find the Exact ASMR/Whisper Video You Enjoy. WhisperFinder is all about that "tingly feeling", more scientifically known as "ASMR" (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response). The feeling is induced by any number of sounds, including physical objects, soft speaking, lip smacking, accents, etc...

Take a look at the select boxes on our Home page to get a feel of the vast amount and variety of different triggers that exist (and will continue to grow). You can read more about the topic here: WhisperFinder was built with mobile devices in mind from the very start. Currently, WhisperFinder is still in development and gladly welcomes beta testers. More category suggestionsMore language/accent additionsMobile device design considerations These are just a few topics on our mind, but if you have any more, we welcome you to send us a message.

In the meantime, our FAQ page should answer some more technical questions. Thank you! Ripley’s Believe It or Not! had their own Atacama humanoid (Video) Real Life Firestarter? Vietnam’s Girl Mystifies Scientists. An 11-year-old Vietnamese girl in HCM City can radiate and burn things that surround her, confirmed his father on May 13. As like in a Firestarter science fiction thriller film based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King in 1984 but now in real life. The girl, whose family claims she has an unusual mental power that can cause objects to burst into flames, has drawn a great deal of attention from the Vietnamese media. The girl's father mentioned he first became aware of that his child was uncommon when the family house's electrical network suffered a number of short circuits, about a month ago. Electricians had been called to fix the short circuit but couldn't discover the trigger behind the power failures.

He mentioned the girl was taken to other houses where the identical phenomenon happened every time. Her mattresses, fans and different gear have burst into flames. Lately, the girl burnt a corner of the bathroom seat. Prof. Expert suspects Vietnam fire girl burns things to get attention. A Ho Chi Minh City research institute has said it cannot make good on its promise to study a girl reportedly with a paranormal ability to set things on fire by being near them, but expressed skepticism about her alleged powers. Du Quang Chau, director of the Energy Dowsing Center at the Hong Bang private university, told Phap Luat Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh (HCMC Laws) newspaper that the center can no longer study her case.

Chau, who studied her briefly, said, however: “I think she burns things to catch people’s attention.” The 11-year-old, identified only as Thuy, has attained fame after her father went to various media agencies 10 days ago seeking help saying stuff around his daughter kept going up in flames. Chau’s center, whose help was also sought, said earlier that the girl has a rare and “precious” ability that needs to be studied carefully. But he began to have doubts after meeting the girl, whom he described as smart and active. "And she was always the one discovering the fires.” Mutation or End-time? –First Face-Eating Zombies, Now An 11-Year-Old Vietnamese Firestarter Girl | Dike Chiedozie's Blog. The case of an 11-year-old girl in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District claimed to have supernatural fire- starting powers is continuing to baffle scientists.

The girl, whose family claims she has an unusual mental power that can cause objects to burst into flames, has drawn a great deal of attention from the Vietnamese media. The girl’s father said he first became aware of that his child was unusual when the family home’s electrical network suffered several short circuits, about a month ago. Electricians were called to fix the short circuit but could not find the cause behind the power failures. He said the girl was taken to other houses where the same phenomenon took place each time. Her mattresses, fans and other equipment have burst into flames.

The hotel room where her family stayed two weeks ago during their holiday on Vung Tau beach also suffered burns from a blaze. Dike Chiedozie’s Blog {scroll down for older posts} Rate this: i Rate This Like this: Like Loading... Real life Firestarter: 11-Year-Old Viet Girl Can Set Things On Fire With Her Mind! | Talesfromthelou. 11-Year-Old Viet Girl Can Set Things On Fire With Her Mind! – YouTube . With kind permission from Soren at Zen Haven Many think this young girl has supernatural abilities and scientists are puzzled by what she has accomplished so far. She is now being called a global scientific phenomenon. According to the family, their 11-year-old daughter has a bizarre ability to set things aflame by just being near them.

The young Vietnamese girl living in HCM City’s Tan Binh District has drawn a great deal of attention from the nation’s media. Her father tells it all started about a month ago when the family home’s electrical network suffered several short circuits, about a month ago. He said the girl was taken to other houses where the same phenomenon took place each time.

The girl has been examined by doctors at Cho Ray Hospital and the Children’s Hospital No. 2 but nothing abnormal has been found. Prof. “This is a very strange case not only in Viet Nam but for the world,” said Hung. More: > Here. Joseph of Cupertino. Joseph of Cupertino, O.F.M. Conv. (Italian: Giuseppe da Copertino) (June 17, 1603 – September 18, 1663) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian mystic and saint. He was said to have been remarkably unclever, but prone to miraculous levitation and intense ecstatic visions that left him gaping.[1]:iii Life[edit] He was born Giuseppe Maria Desa, the son of Felice Desa and Francesca Panara in the village of Copertino, then in the Province of Apulia, in the Kingdom of Naples, now in the Italian Province of Lecce. His father having died before his birth, however, the family home was seized to settle the large debts he had left, and his mother was forced to give birth to him in a stable.

Joseph began to experience ecstatic visions as a child, which were to continue throughout his life, and made him the object of scorn. After Joseph returned to the scorn of his family, he pleaded with the Conventual friars near Cupertino to be allowed to serve in their stables. Richard French, Ex-Air Force Lt. Colonel, 'It Was A UFO And . . . There Were Aliens Aboard It' When Air Force Lt. Col. Richard French was an alleged lead investigator of Project Blue Book in the 1950s, his job was to shoot down false reports of UFOs. Given his job, French never dreamed he'd end up in Newfoundland one day watching what appeared to him to be two extraterrestrials performing repairs on a submerged, unknown circular craft.

In Washington, D.C., recently, the 83-year-old retired officer testified at the Citizen Hearing On Disclosure panel of six former members of Congress about his work as a UFO debunker in 1952. French recounted how the Newfoundland incident unfolded decades ago, in the early 1950s, after two UFOs were seen by many people off the coast of St. John's. "They said, 'We have a UFO report and we want you to investigate it,' and that was standard for what I was doing," French told The Huffington Post. "There were a lot of people assembled on the wharf, at least 100 standing around just looking in amazement at the water, including several local policemen. "